Re: Change routing without losing gain settings and 48V
In my typical scenario, I might have 60 inputs that will be used at various places in the show, swapping between different configurations and patchings, but troughout the show, each physical input will be connected to the same source and will therefore have the same gain requirement all the time. The input settings from scene 1 that are not being used in scene 2 and 3 but will return for scene 4 shouldn't disappear just because they are not being used, only when they are changed for that physical input.
Whether they are stored or not in the intervening scenes is of no real consequence, and either way should work depending on what scenario you device for possible intervening actions like scene swapping and such things that might or might not screw up the settings.
I can't think of a scheme that would work in a wide variety of scenarios and not be inconvenient in other scenarios, and any scheme that would specifically suit one special case scenario might likely be horrible for others. Not having to redo gain and phantom when you make a physical repatch seems to me like one of the unlikely features we could ask for.
If you envision having to handle one particular scenario, make presets for it, that is what the presets are for.
